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[altarflame]

I just ate 5 pickle spears, and I am so sad that there are no more.

There were 5 left in the jar because I ate the rest last night around this time :x

My sister brought up the idea to me today that she thinks I'm having twins. Honestly, every other time I've been pregnant I've been crazy enough to think twins would be cool and a small part of me has hoped for that. This time, though, I am not at all eager about that idea. Her rationale is that I got a faint positive on a (cheapo, not even early detecting) pregnancy test only a week or less after conception, knew so soon, and she thinks I'm having more symptoms than is typical for me, especially this early on. Plus we have a LOT of twins in our family. On both sides. I have twins cousins, twin great aunts, twin aunt and uncle, etc etc.

But we wouldn't have enough seats in the van. We'd have to upgrade again, and are in NO POSITION to do that.

And it would scare the shit out of me, as far as homebirth goes. This honestly is the main factor, I'm honestly not sure I have that level of confidence. Not without an attendant.

And we don't even barely have room for one more here in this house.

And I know more than I used to, and think differently, and I REALLY CHERISH the baby moments I get and have had ALONE, with each child. The co-sleeping, the nursing, the wearing, all of it. I don't want to have to have my baby(ies) share THAT, too.

Grant doesn't think I'm having any more symptoms than I did with Ananda, and I think he's right about that - Laura is just thinking of the last three pregnancies.

Ananda thinks I could have twin GIRLS, and then that would even the score around here :p

All of this is making me wanna rush back on up to the birth center for an ultrasound SO BADLY. Honestly, if I was having twins, I would need the time to prepare myself fully - for finding a good OB who will let me go into labor spotaneously before a surgery, at a hospital that will let me have them right after they come out...ugh, ugh, ugh....or to struggle to find a midwife who'd attend a freaking hba4c, with multiples. Ugh. Just times one, though, not 3 like the first option. Gah!


We had a pretty good day. I really whipped this house into shape this morning - I cleared most of the Counter of Doom and my desk, scrubbed them both and the (also cleared) dining table, did dishes, swept and mopped, cleared all the carpet clutter, and then swept the blasted carpet, since my dyson is being repaired right now. We had a playdate this afternoon with Melanie (LLL co-leader who's not Kristen) and Eli. It went ok. She is nice and we have some things in common, I just don't have the same spark with her that I do with Kristen. Like we get along, it just isn't as fun or natural feeling.

Isaac was good all day. His wakeup fits were extremely mild, we had funny conversations in the kitchen, and he's consistently used the potty or asked for a diaper. We read a lot this evening. He and Jake rolled all over my bed together, squealing, laughing, shrieking, crawling and playing. He is always SO CUTE, but when he's being good on top of it and it's NOT just his saving grace...WOW, is he CUTE!

And Ananda is reading like I can't believe! We have all these little "Step Into Reading" books and she was reading me one tonight, and it blows my mind that, though she does pause for a second at each word and sound some things out, she never snags or needs helps with anything in "I made you something", said Mother Bear" or other similar sentences.

Grant is waiting for me on the couch with a sleepy Jake. I have to go join him before I miss some movie.

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[corin13.livejournal.com]

Are you saying fraternal twins run in your family?

Most the people I know who release two eggs usually do it in most of their cycles and so I would think that if you were going to have fraternal twins you would have done so by now.

There is not suppose to be a genetic influence in having identical twins. It is suppose to be really random.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I actually know all of that, because I've researched it heavily in last pregnancies, except for the bit about how if you release two eggs you usually do it in most cycles. I always thought it was sporatic or periodic or whatever. The twins I'm related to are fraternal twins, yes. Something interesting to note is that my twin cousins were my (paternal) aunt's second pregnancy, my twin great aunts were my (maternal) great grandmother's 3rd pregnancy, and my twin aunt and uncle were my (paternal) grandmother's 4th pregnancy. These are term pregnancies; I don't know if they had miscarriages. My maternal grandmother also miscarried twins after having two other singletons. I'm just saying, all of their tendencies to release two eggs in a cycle seemed to manifest themselves later on in their childbearing.

I wonder if it would be any more or less likely that I would be releasing two eggs with an irregular cycle; because this past cycle was EXTREMELY irregular (or else I would not have ended up pregnant to begin with, and that's confirmed by blood test dates).

[corin13.livejournal.com]

Huh. Interesting.

Reproductive science isn't exact, and even though there is suppose to be no genetic disposition towards having identical twins I have a friend who concieved 2 sets of identical twins within 4 pregnancies (but she lost one early on).

I did not know that ovulating twice was sporadic for some people. I watched a special on discover health when they were doing a special on a woman who had 3 sets of fraternal twins and they acted like it wasn't sporadic, or maybe it just isn't USUALLY sporadic.

Call me crazy but I think location and planetary alignment has an influence on not only what gender you have but if you have multiples. There are high concentrations of multiples in different cities and in different years throughout the world. It is interesting stuff. I think this is why for a year or two everyone you know who gets pregnant has boys, and then for another couple of years it seems as though everyone is having girls (with a few exceptions, of course).
You should do an experiment and ask the people you see out in public what they are having, and then when you get your ultrasound see if it matches. :)
Most the people I know in real life and online have been having girls lately (unlike 2 years ago where it was boys all around) so I am optimistic that I am having a girl.

Feel free to write me off as insane now. lol. But hey, it isn't as bad as my mother in law who asked me what direction I was facing when I concieved the baby.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose that for all I know, maybe people do ALWAYS ovulate twice, but often times only one of the eggs gets fertilized? I mean, that seems plausible enough and could maybe account for the seeming uber-fertility of some people; it's just twice as likely that the sperm are gonna hit one of the eggs in there, since there are two?

I've read that there are tribal areas in Africa where twins are VERY, crazily common, and it's because the people there eat these native yams that encourage women to release two eggs.

I don't think you're crazy; I actually believe in zodiac signs. I don't read horoscopes or make a religion out of it, obviously, but I have yet to ever meet a single person that didn't fit their sign. It's uncanny and nuts. My kids, Grant, me, my parents, my close friends - it's such a definitive thing, to go to one of the really really detailed sites or books that outlines strengths and weaknesses, tendencies, etc etc. Right down to crazy things like scorpio children being almost guaranteed to be molested (me and the 4 I've known all were) and Cancer's suffering abuse early in life and then having one of two paths they can follow (Aaron is a cancer, and so is my little brother).

I figure, God has to have a system. *shrug* This, like scientific discoveries, don't weaken my faith. They just magnify my awe. I don't even pretend to understand it.

Have you ever had a strong hunch about which sex you were carrying? I absolutely knew, with Ananda and Aaron, beyond any shadow of a doubt. I even went out and bought all girl or all boy things, only had one name picked, etc. But then I had that horrific miscarriage, and I was too afraid to bond with Isaac in utero, so I had no clue. I surely did NOT expect a freaking SCOTTSMAN ;)

[corin13.livejournal.com]

I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt with Daniel but I only had slight hunches with the others, and barely anything with this one but I think that is because my desire for a girl is pretty strong (so Joan has a sister close in age) and that is making it harder for me. The one thing I can say though is that somehow I predicted Joans birthday, which was 2 weeks after her due date. That I am pretty proud of. :)

I agree with you whole-heartedly on the astrology thing. Before I converted to catholic I was very into it, and becoming catholic meant that "just to be on the safe side" I sacrificed all my books and stopped writing up charts. I have not even done natal charts on my children, just out of obediance and not because I really think it is harmful. But anyway, I still think when I hear of someones sign" oh that explains it". And I did half-hazardly do one on Adrian a few years back where I learned he could possibly have a problem with lying, and stealing. And damnit, he is already starting to develop something like that. He seems to get a HUGE thrill out of getting away with something, and commonly is sneaky just for the sake of being sneaky.

[corin13.livejournal.com]

heh wrong icon

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I was just doing some research and found that a woman is more likely to release two eggs in one cycle the older she gets, and the more children she already has. Hmm.

This is going to start driving me crazy, I think.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I just found this little gem; Mothers that already have children are more likely to have multiples. By the fourth or fifth pregnancy, the chances of having twins is four times higher than for the first pregnancy. on this page - http://www.threebluestars.com/multiples/1formed.html which is loaded with interesting information, and also mentions the yams in Nigeria. There, 1 in ever 22 births is twins.

[corin13.livejournal.com]

Wow. Can you get those yams mail ordered? I bet it would be cheaper than Clomid.

You see now that you told me that the idea of having more kids is especially frightening. Though now that I have my station wagon we could concievably handle two more. (isn't it funny how car space can dictate the size of your fmaily, unlike back in the day when you could pile 8 kids in the back of a truck)

I think the duggers had a set of twins after like 10 pregnancies. I wonder if theres were identical or fraternal?

[aranel.livejournal.com]

I think that if you have boy and girl twins, you should name them Luke and Sky. That way, their names would be...

Luke & Sky Walker.

(Sorry!)